Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

albedo modification report is that one or two of those strategies might be affordable, but they are dangerously flawed.

would burn all of our known fossil fuel reserves, since that would mean warming beyond 6°C (11°F) and an irreversibly ruined climate that would have trouble sustaining 1 billion people. It would also mean that (1) the Earth ends up with very large areas that are uninhabitable or unfarmable and (2) the ocean would suffer a mass extinction, with larg

The third category focuses on research-based policies aimed at lowering the cost and improving the performance of low-carbon sources.

there is “potential liability for any negative consequences” linked to a weather-modifying intervention.

“Changed diets resulted in GHG emission savings of 34–64% compared to the ‘business-as-usual’ scenario.

The cap-and-trade system is designed to achieve a comparable target level of overall economy-wide emissions reductions as the other pollution-reduction strategies while (1) rewarding the companies that are the most innovative or efficient at cutting pollution and (2) making certain that the target level of emissions is achieved at the least possibl

The fourth category focuses on land and forestry policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and agricultural practices.

conventional efforts to deal with sea-level rise, such as sea walls and barriers, will not work because South Florida sits above a vast and porous limestone plateau.

reductions—40%—comes from energy efficiency.” The report itself provides data “confirming energy efficiency’s place as the ‘first fuel.